Grants Will Aid 12 Quake-Hit Schools

Canoga Park School needs help getting back on track after the Northridge earthquake. One of the campus’s buildings is still off its foundation; the lunch pavilion is unusable, and many of the school’s supplies were damaged by water.

The school was one of 12 schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District chosen to receive $10,000 each from Vons Cos. to replace school supplies lost or damaged in the quake.

Sara Applebaum, assistant principal at Canoga Park School, said her school has yet to decide officially what it will spend the money on, but it should cover “anywhere from art materials, papers, pencils, computer software and literature books, which were waterlogged.”

The other 11 schools are Cantara Street, Danube Avenue, Reseda, San Fernando and Van Gogh Street elementary schools; Frost, Holmes and San Fernando middle schools, and Kennedy, Monroe and Reseda high schools. Those schools were determined by Vons as having the greatest need for replacement supplies.

Vons presented a check for $125,000 to the district for the 12 San Fernando Valley schools May 27.